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CORSET STEEL FASTENING.

No. 317,699. v Patented May 12, 1885.

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DAVID ALOORN, JR, AND ROBERT A. BLAKE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORSET- STEEL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,699, dated May 12, 1885.

' Application filed October 23, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, David ALCORN, Jr., and

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Figure l is a front elevation of the upper part of a pair of corset'steels to which our improvement has been applied. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View of the same, taken through the line 0000, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of one of the eye-plates. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of one-of the locking-hooks.

The object of this invention is to prevent corset-steels from becoming accidentally dis connected.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

A 13 represent a pair of corset steels, to one of which are attached a number of eyeplates, O, to engage with a corresponding number of knobs, D, attached to the other steel. The eyes of the plates 0 are made sufficiently large at their inner ends to allow the heads of the knobs D to pass through, and

only large enough at their outer ends to re-- ceive the necks of the said knobs. The shanks of the eyeplates O are secured to the steel A by rivets E, and the shanks of the knobs D are riveted to the steel B.

To the shanks of the eye-plates 0, between the rivets E, are pivoted, by rivets F, the shanks of hook-plates G. The outer parts of the hookplates G are made wide, and are slotted from their lower edges upon the arcs of circles having their centers at the rivets F, the said slots being made wide enough to receive the necks of the knobs D.

Upon the upper edges of the outer ends of the hook-plates G are formed thumb-pieces H, forconvenience in raising the said hookplates G off the necks of the knobs D, to allow the eye-plates G to be disconnected from the said knobs D.

The hook-plates G are kept from swinging down below the eye plates 0 when the steels are disconnected by lips I, formed upon the upper edges of the said hook-plates G, and which engage with the upper edges of the said eyeplates 0, as shown in Fig. 2.

With this construction the steels can be connected and disconnected only when the ho0k-plates G are raised, and when the said steels are connected and the hook-plates G are lowered upon the necks of the knobs D the steels will be locked together and cannot become disconnected accidentally.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a clasp for corset-steels the combination, with the eye-plates O, of the hookplates Gr, pivoted to the said eye plates, and provided with the lips I, for engaging the upper edges of the eye-plates, to limit their downward movement, substantially as herein shown and described.

DAVID ALOORN, JR. ROBERT A. BLAKE.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, (J. 'SEnewIoK. 

